Sentence examples for referral rule from inspiring English sources

Most referrals would take place in the first 3 years (73.9%); The first height deflection referral rule (refer if length or height SDS changes more than 0.25 SD per year) would lead to most referrals (69%), followed by the second height deflection referral rule (refer if height SDS decreases by more than 1 SD) leading to another unacceptably high number of referrals (34%).

= not applicable Theoretically one could imagine that a deflection away from the target height SDS in the first 2 3 years of life could be a suitable referral rule.

Also the referral rule based on distance to target height SDS (refer if the child's height SDS shows a distance of more than 1.3 SD to target height SDS) would lead to a high percentage of referrals (15%).

The CMA also declined to comment on the likelihood of an investigation but confirmed it would be able to demand that divestments were made, although it cannot fine companies under market referral rules.

This low prevalence of pathology in children presenting with short stature implies that the specificity of the referral rules should be high, in the order of 98 99%, in order to keep the number of unnecessary referrals acceptable.

We recommend further research with a large sample of children with CD diagnosed in the last few years to study the most valid simulation values for referral rules based on BMI and other diagnostics.

In the present study we wished to 1) study the performance of the Dutch Consensus Guideline (DCG) in a second sample with a wider age range; 2) count the actual referrals for short stature in that region; and 3) investigate the test characteristics of the UK Consensus Guideline (UKCG), WHO guideline and several other referral rules.

Three sets of referral rules were tested on the growth data: the auxological criteria mentioned in the DCG [ 3], those of the UKCG [ 5] and the cut-off values mentioned in the WHO Global Database on Child growth and Malnutrition [ 9].

Physician referral was done to rule out any other focus (pulmonary/extrapulmonary) of TB.

It will help to select investigations or referral to confirm or rule out secondary headaches (Fig. 2, Algorithm-1).

This algorithm for secondary headaches just guides the clinicians to select investigations or referral to confirm or rule out secondary headaches.